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Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Favorite Hepburn/Tracy Movie
Review: This is my absolute favorite. The court room antics, the chemistry between the two and a clever story line. I can't see how you'd go wrong with this one, fun from start to end.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Loved It!
Review: This is the only Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn movie I have seen and I just loved it and want to see their other movies! Judy Holiday who was very good plays a woman who shoots her abusive husband who is cheating on her so Spencer Tracy who plays a prosecuter wants to send her to prison but Katharine Hepburn who plays a defense lawyer wants to help her avoid prison and it also so happens that the prosecuter and defense lawyer are married which makes for a very interesting battle. I'm glad I wasn't the only person who found Kip the boorish neighbor of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn played by David Wayne to be irritaing, I'm not into violence but I must say I was hoping that either the character played by Spencer Tracy or the character played by Katharine Hepburn would have slapped him when he was being so rude and trying to make a fool out of Spencer Tracy when he was showing his family home movies to his guests at the dinner party?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Inspiring
Review: This movie caused me to take an interest in the law as a young girl. I am now a successful lawyer and thoroughly enjoyed seeing the movie all over again. Sparks, fun, ambition, relationships, wise-cracks and everything you would expect from Hepburn and Tracy. Outstanding

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fun
Review: This movie is great fun. Hepburn & Tracy are superb as usual, but Ewell & Holliday almost steal the show!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Movie, Bad Version
Review: This movie is wonderful. Tracy and Hepburn are at their best. The supporting cast is a riot. However the movie loses one star because of the absolutely terrible colorizing job done with it. Its inconsistent, and detracted from my enjoyment of the film. Buy the movie, its fabulous, but don't get it in color.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of my favorites
Review: This movie was excellant. The acting was superb and the story was phenomenol. I love the last scene I could not stop laughing. Great movie. One of my favorite Hepburn/Tracy movies.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pleasant mid century skirmish in the sexual wars
Review: Two New York lawyers, husband Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) and wife Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn), work out the marital tension and fight the sexual wars in the courtroom on opposite sides of a wife (Judy Holliday) shoots cheating husband (Tom Ewell) case. Adam's masculinity is seemingly challenged and his sense of justice offended by his wife's insistence on showing how smart she is while furthering her feminist agenda at the expense of the law. Will their public confrontation destroy their marriage, or will it ultimately make the bond stronger?

This still plays mainly because of the charisma of Hepburn and Tracy and the fine chemistry they create together. The script by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon is profound and shallow by turns, yet ultimately witty and pleasing. Judy Holliday as the lower middle-class Doris Attinger (on her way to her signature role in Born Yesterday (1950)) and David Wayne, as the song-writing neighbor who adores Amanda, shine in supporting roles. George Cukor's direction is clear, crisp and always focused. In the end we can see that Adam can be as feminine as Amanda can be masculine. The bit where Tracy cries real tears to win her back and then tells her, "We all have our tricks" is classic. It's his clever answer to her outrageous courtroom theatrics. Memorable as it illuminates their contrasting personalities is the early scene where the unsophisticated Doris is interviewed by Yale law school grad Amanda.

As a political movie, was Adam's Rib ahead of its time as a vehicle for feminist expression, or was it just another apology for male chauvinism, or was it balanced and fair? I'll give you a hint: the title is ironic. One of the things that made the Tracy/Hepburn romance work so well for so long was the creative balance they maintained in the battle of the sexes. The script by Kanin and Gordon carefully continues that profoundly true equilibrium.


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